Top 5 Ways to Protect Personal Information Assets
Nanuet, NY (ContentDesk) April 8, 2004 -? According to the FTC's January, 2004 Consumer Sentinel Report, over a half million consumer fraud and identity fraud complaints were lodged in 2003. And major junk email statistics sources show junk email ? or spam ? as between 50 to 60 percent of all email. Privacy Tactics, a new 400 page book on consumer privacy, describes in-depth how to protect personal information assets against these and other sorts of attacks with over 40 personal information privacy and security tactics. Here are some of the basic top tactics consumers may use, but often don't; thus placing themselves at higher risk for simple wastes of their time through the difficulties of identity fraud. * Don't give out more information than necessary for a transaction!- Most businesses ask for more than they need.
Don't automatically cough up information that's not really needed.- Check into privacy policies the same way you check return and other policies.* Stay alert to your own status!- Carefully check banking, credit card and other statements.- Consider personal credit monitoring services.* Really FOLLOW the basic rules for "Computer Cleanliness"- Keep computer virus and junk mail software up to date.- Use "anti-spyware" programs if you have a tendency to download a lot of Internet "freebie" type programs.- Use a password to protect home wireless networks.- Use firewall software or a firewall in your router if you use a router.- Do not click on program files in Email unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE of their source, why they were sent and what they are.- Avoid storing sensitive data, (or use encryption products), for laptop computers.- Pay attention to kid's online usage.* Protect your paper! - Shred anything with personally identifying information on it before tossing it out.* Choose carefully where and when to Opt-in to promotions or freebies!- Only opt-in to promotions or deals after checking what will be done with information you provide.Privacy Tactics includes everything from how to decrease exposure to junk Email & viruses, junk postal mail, hidden tracking of Internet use, credit card/identity theft, safety techniques for home networks and more. Additionally, Privacy Tactics offers an introduction to the history of how ideas about privacy have developed in the United States along with overviews of major laws affecting citizens' privacy.Privacy Tactics is available online from TetraMesa Publishing at privacytactics.com and major online bookstores. Customers can have their favorite local bookstore order via Ingram. (ISBN 0-9744497-0-9 / 400 page paperback / $24.95)More information on identity fraud is available at: www.privacytactics.com/cs/media.htmReview copies available on request.
Author Scott Germaise is available for interviews..
Why WAP isn't - as bad as people say
It's unlucky that the acronym for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has such an unfortunate rhyme! Even more unlucky for WAP, it burst onto the mobile communication scene with lavish promises from the Mobile Operators (you know who you are) of 'The Internet on your Mobile' and 'Take the Internet with you'.That really was a load of WAP. So, a few years on we can ask, like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 'WAP, what is it good for'?More than you might think, given the current deafening silence from those same Mobile Operators. The rise (and rise) of SMS is instructive. This has gone from nowhere to everywhere with practically no promotion from the networks. Type SMS into Google and you get 52 million hits! In China in 2003, 220 Billion SMS messages were sent.
During 2003 in the UK alone, 30 Billion were sent, which equates to 500 for every man, woman and child in the entire country! What is going on here?Well SMS is cheap, not cheap enough perhaps but, up until a couple of years ago,...
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WHOTSPOT Turnkey Internet Cafe Solutions brings WiFi to Sherway Gardens Mall in Toronto, Canada.
WHOTSPOT an upstart WiFi Hotspot Management Service, today announced it has completed installation and activation of wireless internet access at Sherway Gardens Mall in Toronto Canada. The service was primarily established to service visiting clients who must remain connected to their offices while shopping, eating and meeting. A secondary benefit is provided to the Mall's retailers, who now have access to the low-cost high speed internet service provided by WHOTSPOT.People of all ages and backgrounds will come to enjoy the unique, upscale, educational, and innovative environment that a WiFi Internet Cafe provides. WHOTSPOT takes the complexity out of this technology buy providing complete turnkey WiFi managed solutions, at rock bottom prices.For Example: WHOTSPOT can provide a Business Class WiFi Router preconfigured to connect to our backend servers + 100 Table Brochures + 100 How To Connect instructional brochures; Support roaming Laptop and PDA users; Add your own PC's or Kiosks...
WHOTSPOT Turnkey Internet Cafe Solutions brings WiFi to Sherway Gardens Mall in Toronto, Canada.
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Interactive Charts are Reinventing Visual Data
Interactive charts have revolutionized the way visual data is displayed. Think back to elementary school geography class, sitting drowsily in your desk as the teacher pulls down her roll-up world maps and charts to review the 50 states and their capitals. Visual improvements have been made over the past few years to improve those maps and charts. Most maps and charts now are divided into topographical, population, climate, economic resources, physical, political, and road maps, color coded for the viewer's convenience. There are probably even more, but that has been the extent of interactive charts for several years.But imagine combining all of those maps and charts into one report, and all a user has to do is drag the mouse over a state or a country and all of the information you would have to display several maps to show is centralized in one display of interactive charts.
It is called interactive charts, because it works in partnership with the user to provide all of the information...
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Internet Fax ? New Way to Send and Receive Faxes
Everything goes online, including faxing service.
Internet fax service is a convenient way to send and receive faxes via the internet.
There is no need to install a fax machine, fax modem, and additional phone line.
You can send and receive faxes by email anytime anywhere with internet access.
This is how internet fax service works: when you subscribe to internet fax service, you will receive a local or toll free fax number.
Received faxes are converted into picture files and routed directly to your inbox.
You can read and respond to the faxes on the laptop even when you are on vacation.
Sending faxes is just as easy.
Faxes can be sent from email, the web or using the software program provided by the internet fax company.
Internet fax service provides some major advantages to home and business users.
First of...
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